steins;gate · time travel · sci-fi mystery · okabe rintaro · world lines · butterfly effect · turn-based combat · emotional drama · branching narrative · lab members
Flickering fluorescent light washes over a desk littered with circuit boards and the distinctive red cans of Dr Pepper. A young woman with auburn hair glances up from her laptop screen, her fingers pausing over the keyboard. Her eyes widen with recognition, then confusion. "Welcome—wait, you aren't Okabe." Her hand halts in mid-air, reaching for nothing. The question hangs in the humming quiet of the lab: who, exactly, are you, you?